Fullmer17

Per Bob Nightengale...
They knew that Trout was fully invested in the organization. Trout even studied videos and watched hitters before the last few drafts, and personally lobbied for the Angels to draft outfielder Jo Adell in 2017. They drafted, signed him, and Trout even gave him his cell phone number, telling him to call whenever he needed anything.

Harper after failing to get Trout to join him in Philadelphia:

He better get the biggest ovation imaginable on our opening day.

After seven years of hearing from my Yankees and Phillies friends about how he was going to leave, combined with sports media's unrelenting desire for him to go east, this feels awesome.

Please, Sweet Baby Jesus, let this happen.

Eppler said he told Allen they wanted him to be the closer. 
He’s not about to go sign someone else now to be the closer. 
Not his style. 

That would be me. You can see the byline on the web site.

A day later and sober (had too much fun last night after work), I really REALLY like this signing. 
Cody Allen has been one of the best, if not THE best reliever in terms of consistency over the past 5-6 years with an ERA under 3 in all of those seasons outside of 2018, but like @totdprods pointed out, he had 3 REALLY bad outings that blew up his ERA. His strikeouts to IP was still solid despite 1 mph loss on his FB, which could come back if he's not overthrowing trying to compensate for losing his grip on the curveball. 

I believe the number I had been telling people was $30M.
They spent around $37M on Harvey, Cahill, Allen, Bour and Lucroy (adding in reaching some of the incentives) and they saved around $7M by getting rid of Shoemaker and Parker.

Same agent as Albert.  Just sayin. 

I'll keep it simple re: Eppler. If he doesn't make the playoffs at least once over the next two seasons and cannot sign Trout to an extension or if he won't sign here (and wants to test FA) get a significant package for him via a trade, he''ll be complete failure as GM.

When/if we make it to the postseason, these are the type of FA signings we are going to wish the Angels stretched a little to get done. 

Man, I miss these old movies when political correctness wasn't a thing. 
Comedy sucks nowadays. 

Jerry was desperate after losing out on Ohtani last year.

Would love nothing more than for Eppler to step in again and cock-block Jerry......

I do wonder if we’ll see an overpayment when everything is said and done. Between that and Boras, it’s an obvious possibility. 

If we were talking to Robertson, I would think Eppler would be in the market for Ottavino and Britton.

If we were talking to Robertson, I would think Eppler would be in the market for Ottavino and Britton.

My experience with Eppler is if you try really really hard you can get him to say who he ISN’T interested in, but you can never get him to say who he is interested in. 

Sign Jed Lowrie.

If we are still in the mix for Keuchel, which may or may not be true, then the perceived budget isn’t a real thing.